Second time around, I reduced the Transcoder memory setting to 256m, given more free memory for the PMS. That seemed to help... until it just completely crashed. (Not running as a service.)

Pulling it new debug log, it seems it crashed with excessive out of memory errors when it ran into a .MOV file on the photo directory and invoked ffmpeg to try to get a thumbnail. (See attached debug.log in the zip)

Yet it seems to me what I'm trying to do is a pretty perfectly normal thing without excessive file sizes or file quantity. Does PMS really requires resource levels significantly beyond your average desktop PC?

Assuming you're already following the FAQ - viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3507&start=30#p38969You may need to tailor the values some more... Are you using any plugins? What else are you running on the machine (ie how much free RAM do you have)?I wouldn't expect the heap error when just viewing photos, although MOV files can be finicky for some reason.

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It's been a while since I browsed the thumbnailing code, but remember getting the impression that the code keeps thumbnail images in memory. So if they would happen to be large, you could run out of memory fast.

What happens if you switch off image thumbnails under "Navigation / Share settings"?